@worldviewconvos I don’t believe in zero-sum economics or redistributive economics. Those are secular abstractions that understand obligation only in secular terms. I believe, like John Calvin, that when you see your neighbor in need and you have more goods than they...1
@worldviewconvos ...you have some obligation to give to them because of your relationship to God and to others as fellow image-bearers. Calvin says “Each [Christian] will so consider himself…a debtor to his neighbors that… he ought in exercising kindness toward them to set no other limit...2
@worldviewconvos ...than the end of his resources.” (Institutes, II.8.7). Why? Calvin says: “Say [about the neighbor] that you owe nothing for any service of his; but God, as it were, has put him in his own place in order that you may recognize toward him the many and great benefits which God...3
@worldviewconvos ...has bound you to himself…You will say, ‘He has deserved something far different from me’. Yet what has the Lord deserved? … Remember not to consider men’s evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with...4
@worldviewconvos ...its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.” (Institutes, II.8.6) You may think Calvin is wrong too—but now make an argument that he was a Marxist? 5
@worldviewconvos I need to apologize. I cited Calvin earlier today and gave the wrong location of the quotes in the Institutes. The two quotes are from Institutes III.7.6. an III.7.7 respectively. (I erroneously said it was in Book II and Chapter 8. Sorry).
